Creating pavements in front of the bank and photographers shop, and Yorkstone paving under the castle mound pedestrian access steps, all ready for gluing in place.
Keith
Car park and road painted 🎨 asphalt colour.
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| Masking tape used along the edges |
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| Masking tape removed |
Keith
Today I started on the road on the left-hand baseboard.
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| First piece cut and in place at the top of the incline |
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| All 3 pieces glued in place with handy weights to hopefully keep the road flat whilst the glue sets |
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| Glue has set |
Keith
I have been busy this afternoon, painting with brown paint, working out paving area underneath the steps up to the castle mound and car park surface glued down.
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| The ground around the track now painted brown |
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| Piece of Yorkstone paving in place |
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| With the steps and photographers in place, I need to decide how to proceed further with the paving, there are a number of options buzzing around my brain! |
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| Car park and access road glued in place |
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| Starting to take shape |
Keith
This morning's effort at painting the piece of stone wall alongside the car park access slope sees it fully painted in one go, two shades of grey for the stones, red coping stones and wooden post. 😊
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| Polyfilla applied to the castle mound where needed |
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| Castle mound and road embankment painted brown |
Keith
Having laid out the castle mound car park yesterday, I wasn't very happy with the rather prominent 'hump' in the access road to the car park from the main road.
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| I marked up a level slope |
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| Then cut away the offending hump |
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| The hump |
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| I made a new piece of stone wall to border the access road |
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| I attached a post to the upper end |
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| I sprayed the wall with primer |
Keith
Playing with the castle mound car park and shaping the mound.
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| I tried this car park layout first with the access road between the left-hand row and centre row of cars, but wasn't happy with it |
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| I changes things around and much happier with it this way, the access road up from the road will be on the far left, hence the gap with no cars on it |
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| Castle mound roughly cut to shape using a Stanley knife blade, all fingers still intact 🤨 |
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| Smoothed down with sandpaper and access road to car park on the left cut and sanded |
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| It will require some filling in with Polyfilla in places |
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| Car park and access road cut to shape |
This afternoon I finished painting the stone walling which goes behind the steps and photographers shop, including painting the wall capping red and the wooden post at the end of the wall wood colour.
Keith
Another piece of the stone walling half painted.
Keith
Nine pieces of foam which form the slope of the castle mound from the road now glued in place.
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| Another piece of foam to support the castle mound behind the bank now glued in place |
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| The start of painting the stone walling alongside the steps up to the castle mound |
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| One stone at a time |
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| One shade of grey completed in this side of the wall |
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| Second shade of grey completed in this side of the wall |
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| I painted the concrete base of the steps concrete colour |
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| Wall and steps in place whilst the paint dries |
Keith
First thing this morning I spray primered the stone walling I constructed yesterday
Keith
Today I made a start on constructing the area behind the pedestrians step up to the castle mound and behind the photographers' shop, an area I have been giving a lot of thought to recently as to what I wanted to do. I have finally decided to create a stone wall alongside and behind the steps.
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| I have cut and shaped 2 pieces of stone walling, they go back to back alongside the steps and 1 piece behind the steps and the photographers' |
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| I have made a wooden post to go on the end of the stone wall at the roadside |
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| More of an aerial view |
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| Clamping the 2 pieces together whilst the glue sets |
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| I cut down a larger matchstick, one of the long ones, to make a gate post on the end of the stone walling |
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| Then I added wall capping to the whole wall |
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| View from the road incline |
